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You've lost your job as a department store lingerie buyer, your car's been repossessed, and most of your furniture and small appliances have been sold off to pay last month's rent. Now the rent is due again. And you live in New Jersey. What do you do? If you're Stephanie Plum, you become a bounty hunter. But not just a nickel-and-dime bounty hunter - you go after the big money. That means a cop gone bad.

Sommer, Sonne, Gambas – so hat sich Katze Frau Merkel ihre dreimonatige Mallorca-Auszeit mit Kommissar Steinböck vorgestellt. Doch kaum auf der Insel, entdeckt sie im Nachbar-Bungalow einen Münchner YouTuber mit einer Kugel im Kopf. Comisario Ferrer aus Palma bittet Steinböck um Amtshilfe. Seine Spuren führen ihn vom Villenviertel bis in den Yachthafen von Palma. Als dort eine weitere Leiche aus dem Hafenbecken gefischt wird, ist es mit der Idylle endgültig vorbei – adiós Erholung, denn dieser Urlaub wird mörderisch spannend! Und Frau Merkel? Weiß mal wieder alles besser …

Death in the Andamans is a masterpiece of mystery and romance from one of our most beloved authors. When a violent storm lashes the tiny Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal, Copper Randal barely manages a safe return to Government House. She does get back in one piece with her hostess, Valerie Masson, Val's fiancé, and handsome naval officer Nick Tarrent, but one of the islanders is unaccounted for when the boats return to harbor.

Amaia Salazar, a young detective from the north of Spain, has joined a group of trainees at the FBI Academy in Virginia. Haunted by her past and having already tracked down a predator on her own, Amaia is no typical rookie. And this is no ordinary student lecture at Quantico. FBI agent Aloisius Dupree is already well acquainted with Amaia’s skills, her intuition, and her ability to understand evil. He now needs her help in hunting an elusive serial killer dubbed “the Composer,” and in solving another case that’s been following him his whole life.

Special Agent Ingrid Skyberg is ready to walk away from her life in London. She’s at rock bottom and even wants to leave the FBI. But when Ingrid attempts to board a flight at Heathrow and sneak away without telling anyone, she’s arrested for killing a man she’s never heard of. Now Ingrid must stay in the country, and with the FBI, to prove her innocence. Up against powerful forces who would rather silence her—permanently—than let the real killer pay the price, Ingrid digs deep to uncover a conspiracy that leads all the way to the White House.

The table is set for family dinner; roast chicken, wine for them and juice for their darling boy, a vase of fresh daisies from the garden for decoration. But the food is cold, and the flowers are wilting. You might think they were sleeping in the next room, if it wasn’t for the blood dripping crimson onto the carpet.

With six months left to fulfill the provisions of Uncle Nevin’s will and save the fixer-upper castle she and her cousin inherited, Rayne McGrath and Ciara Smith’s bridal venue venture is finally bringing in money. To unite the reluctant villagers, some who’d vehemently protested their efforts to modernize the village, they agree with Father Patrick’s idea to create a group of volunteers to clean the old cemetery behind the beloved church. When a body is found by one of the historic tombstones, the cousins must work overtime to solve the newest case.

Sarah Chapman er vred på sin mand, Steven, der er taget i byen, og hun er meget fuld, da han kommer hjem. Da en nabo senere hører tumult og går over til dem, finder han hende med en pistol i hånden, og Steven død i sengen. Sarah nægter sig skyldig i mordet, og den eneste, der tror på hende, er FBI-profileren Eva Rae Thomas. Snart dukker der flere lig op, og Eva er i et kapløb med tiden for at fange den rigtige morder, inden det er for sent, og hendes egen familie bliver ramt.

Zoe loves working as a consultant for a company that specializes in the recovery of stolen art. Her only complaint is that the jobs are few and far between, so when she meets an eccentric collector who is on the hunt for a painting of a blue butterfly that might—or might not—exist, she jumps at the chance to look for it. She comes across shady dealers and a confusion of clues as her search for the elusive painting takes her from tropical destinations to the cobblestone streets of Madrid.

A nurse, wife and mother of two, Nina can’t say no when someone asks for help—even when she knows better. When her estranged friend Karin leaves her a key to a public locker in a Copenhagen train station, Nina gets suckered into her most dangerous project yet. Inside the locker is a suitcase, and inside the suitcase is a three-year-old boy: naked and drugged, but alive.

Helen Hawthorne and her new husband, Phil Sagemont, are a PI team. To catch a jewel thief on a luxury yacht, Helen goes undercover as the ship’s new stewardess, serving drinks to snobs, scrubbing floors, and cleaning up after seasick passengers. While Helen is cruising the Bahamas, Phil has to catch a sexy gold digger who may have killed her elderly husband for his fortune.

London, present day. Art recovery specialist Zoe Andrews really needs a break. And all that stands in the way of a well-deserved romantic getaway is an open-and-shut case tracking down a valuable painting’s origin. But Zoe’s vacation plans unravel when the priceless piece is lifted from the gallery, throwing her headlong into a media frenzy.

When Maddie McGuire lands an archeology internship at the Roman Baths in England, she assumes everything will go her way. But when this college sophomore discovers a severed human ear on her doorstep, she must solve its meaning before she becomes the next victim, or worse, gets deported. Her tentative friendship with young constable Edward Bailey and the beauty of the Bath Abbey are no comfort as her aristocratic coworker Simon Pacock sabotages her every move. And the danger only increases when she discovers a dead body, both ears intact.

On her way home after an overnight shift, DI Jan Talantire hears the control room relaying an emergency. Someone has fallen to their death from one of the highest cliffs in Devon. Jan is nearby so she agrees to hold the fort until uniformed cops arrive.

It was supposed to be a vacation, but instead reporter Rebekka Franck confronts her most baffling case yet! When a priest’s exorcism goes awry, Rebekka must pick up the pieces and discover the mystery behind an evil force. Rebekka and Sune are on a vacation in Northern Zeeland, when they suddenly find themselves involved in what turns out to be their strangest case to this date.

Old secrets. Missing teenagers. In this small island town, something horrifying is afoot. A mysterious young girl seems to bring out powerful abilities in Emma's special-needs son. As she combs her small Danish island for clues about both mysteries, she realizes the killer and the strange girl are somehow connected. Before the killer strikes again, Emma must risk it all to uncover the frightening truth about what lies beneath her isolated island home.

Såg pojken sin mor mördas? Två mord liknar varandra så mycket att göteborgspolisen är övertygad om att det handlar om en och samma gärningsman. Kan en försvunnen pojke ha sett mördaren? Vilken roll spelar en försvunnen direktör från Jönköping? När Kent Mortland lär känna polispsykolog Jessica Anehammar blir han indragen i en polisjakt som delvis utspelas på kanalön Jersey.

Una peligrosa formación política llega con fuerza a las Elecciones Generales españolas. En una misión secreta del CNI, la agente Dana es enviada a Barcelona para proteger a un personaje público importante de cualquier posible ataque. Su objetivo: que llegue sano y salvo a una reunión extraoficial en el hotel Majestic. Todo parece ir con normalidad, hasta que una bala se interpone en su camino. Lo que nadie sabe es que, lo que parece un atentado político, en realidad encubre una operación de intereses internacionales.

Una peligrosa formación política llega con fuerza a las Elecciones Generales españolas. En una misión secreta del CNI, la agente Dana es enviada a Barcelona para proteger a un personaje público importante de cualquier posible ataque. Su objetivo: que llegue sano y salvo a una reunión extraoficial en el hotel Majestic. Todo parece ir con normalidad, hasta que una bala se interpone en su camino. Lo que nadie sabe es que, lo que parece un atentado político, en realidad encubre una operación de intereses internacionales.

Set in the Danish coastal town of Karrebaeksminde, the story follows journalist Rebekka Franck, who returns to her hometown with her six-year-old daughter. She is trying to escape her ex-husband and start a new life for her and her daughter when the sleepy small town experiences a murder. One of the kingdom's wealthiest men is brutally murdered in his summer residence in Karrebaeksminde.